[AISWorld] Last CFP: ICSOC 2011 PhD Symposium

[Michael Sheng]

ICSOC 2011 PhD Symposium

The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011)

5-8 December 2011, Paphos, Cyprus
http://www.icsoc.org

Submission Deadline: 30 August 2011


***AIM AND TARGET AUDIENCE***

The ICSOC PhD Symposium 2011 is an international forum for PhD students 
working in all the areas addressed by the ICSOC conference 
(http://www.icsoc.org). The goals of the ICSOC PhD Symposium are:

- To bring together PhD students and established researchers in the 
field of service oriented computing.
- To enable PhD students to interact with other PhD students and to 
stimulate an exchange of ideas, suggestions, and experiences among 
participants.
- To give PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss their 
research in a constructive and critical atmosphere.
- To provide students with fruitful feedback and advice on their 
research approach and thesis.

We particularly encourage students that are still developing their 
research methodology or are somewhere in the middle of their research 
program to submit to this symposium. Only active PhD students are 
eligible to submit, and topics are restricted to their doctoral work 
within the scope of the ICSOC conference.

The symposium in Paphos, Cyprus will be the 7th PhD Symposium of the 
series held in conjunction with the ICSOC conferences in San Francisco, 
USA (2010), Stockholm, Sweden (2009), Sydney, Australia (2008), Vienna, 
Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2005).


***IBM SPONSORSHIP***

We are proud to announce that IBM Research, USA, will be sponsoring the 
ICSOC PhD Symposium, as already done with prior editions of the event. 
Details on the exact form of the sponsorship and application will be 
posted on the Symposium's web page as soon as available.


***SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS***

Submitted papers should give a clear description of the PhD work being 
conducted by the author of the paper. In particular, papers must:

- Provide a clear problem statement.
- Outline the research challenges that drive the proposed work.
- Describe the proposed solution, its expected impact, the expected 
research plan, and – if available – preliminary results.
- Discuss the progress beyond the state of the art of the envisioned 
research outcome compared to current literature and approaches (cite key 
papers).

Each paper must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must be at most 6 
pages in length (strictly enforced). Submissions must be single-author, 
and the name of the supervisor(s) must be clearly marked ("supervised by 
...") under the author’s name.

Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via the PhD 
Symposium track in the ICSOC submission system. Accepted papers will be 
included in the ICSOC 2011 post-conference proceedings of satellite 
events, to be published by Springer as part of the Service Science series.


***REVIEW PROCESS AND FORMAT OF THE SYMPOSIUM***

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the PhD 
Symposium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance 
to service-oriented computing, potential for impact, quality of proposed 
research. The selection of papers will be based on these criteria.

In order to stimulate the discussion during the symposium, (i) reviewers 
will be asked to provide one paragraph description of what solution they 
think suits the described problem and how they would approach the 
research (in addition to the review); (ii) students accepted for 
participation will be asked to write their own reviews of two/three 
other accepted papers. As a feedback on their reviews, students will be 
granted access to the respective reviews by the Program Committee.

The symposium will operate in a workshop format, giving PhD students the 
opportunity to showcase their research and to assess the solutions 
proposed by the Program Committee.


***IMPORTANT DATES***

Aug 30, 2011: Paper submission
Oct 15, 2011: Author notification
Oct 30, 2011: Camera-ready submission


***PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS***

Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France

***PROGRAMME COMMITTEE***
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France
Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT, Australia
Mauro Caporuscio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA Paris, France
Mohand-Said Hacid, LIRIS, France
Xitong Li, MIT, USA
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA
Pascal Poizat, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France
Aviv Segev, KAIST, Korea
Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia


***CONTACT INFORMATION***

If you have any inquiries, please contact the PhD Symposium chairs at: 
ps [at] icsoc.org